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NIST blames fireproofing for WTC collapse

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 7 April 2005
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Edito Attack-Terrorism USA

by Philip Green

Fireproofing has been blamed for the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings collapse after the two airplanes - American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines 175 - struck the north and the south tower within minutes of each other killing 2,749 people, including those on the two jets.

The 10,000-page report prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), out of which 3,400 pages were made public Tuesday, stated that the hijacked airplanes had struck the WTC buildings with such great impact (the first plane hitting at 443 miles per hour and the second plane hitting at 542 miles per hour) that it tore off the fireproofing from the steel columns resulting in heat buildup and weakening the structural core that lead to towers crumbling like a pack of cards.

“Even with the airplane impact and jet-fuel-ignited multi-floor fires, which are not normal building fires, the buildings would likely not have collapsed had it not been for the fireproofing that had been dislodged,” said Shyam Sunder, who led NIST’s fire and safety investigation.

NIST also said that survivors took a more than twice the time to make through the emergency stairwells and that better communications service between the rescuers could certainly have saved a large number of lives.

According to the report, it took 48 seconds for a survivor to make through the stairwells in Tower 1, which is almost double time taken for evacuation keeping in with a current fire safety handbook.

The reason for delay in taking the staircase, as stated in the report, was people were deliberating about what next to do, or how to get to the stairwell.

The report however did not blame the designers or builders for the WTC collapse, but said that fireproofing adhered to steel.

The report also found that information sharing was quite poor at the time of the attack and insufficient communications capabilities contributed to rescuers lives. "If communications were better, more firefighters would have lived," an unnamed firefighter who told the investigators.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/...

Forum posts

  • Another attempt to give false reason for the collapses. I remember thinking, upon seeing the buildings crumble, "Wow! They’re going down; someone planted explosives!" It’s my first thought and remains the truth, at least to me.

    • Face it, there were no explosive the towers were just lousy built!

      An example of good construction is the bridge and the industrial dome of Hiroshima - planned and constructed by German engineers these building survived even the American/Jewish constructed nuclear bomb.

  • "America: where jihadist means you eat pork, drink, sniff coke, and sleep with prostitutes" (but don’t forget to leave your koran on the barstool.

    Mohamed atta and the venice flying circus:

    http://www.madcowprod.com/vfcwmv.html

    I like this part: "like a house of cards"....house of cards don’t fall straight down...lol. Wasn’t it the head company engineer that did the clean up of the WTC(2001 & 1993) that first said explosives were used and then later retracted his statement...yeah, yeah, that’s right...the name of the company??? Demolition...wow, what a coinkydinky. Look it up beeatches.

    Does this mean popular mechanics was wrong? So hot it melted, but not atta’s passport? good thing or we wouldn’t have proof he was there. Maybe it’s because it didn’t have fireproofing on it. I hear passports are indestructible. lmao

    Wait, wait, how about this one, there were no arabs on the flights, well, at least according to autopsy reports...I know, I know, national security reason...ugh huh, yeah right, just like that video at the pentagon is national security right? We can see the planes in NY, but for some reason no one wants to show us the confiscated videos from around the pentagon do they?

    Show me the video, then I’ll believe our government. Hide the video, your all liars. Most people have accepted that and moved on...don’t worry, we know there is nothing we can do about it, but next time, we’ll be watching real close...so you better get it right or declare martial law and round up all the skeptics, because we’ll be watching.

    It’s not like this is unheard of...look up operation northwoods. The joint chiefs of staff wanted a war with Cuba, they said, "let’s terrorize our own citizens, blame it on the cubans, and none will be the wiser"...operation northwoods. Why didn’t it happen? A guy named JFK was the head of the ship...I wonder if someone else was president, if they would say yes? hmmmmm.

    • Nothing personal and absolutely no disrespect intended. Really.

      What are you saying?

      My husband and two structural engineers have said, to me in informal circumstances, that the "official story" is bullshit. That it could not have happend that way.

      The "house of cards" crap is just that. It didn’t happen that way.

      I can’t quite tell whether you believe that, or are being sarcastic.

  • The picture says it all. How can they be so obvious and get away with it?

  • Upon watching the towers go down, both so neatly and exactly the same way (after being struck in different spots, 1 in the middle, the other in the side), I thought it reminded me of a demolition I had seen before this day. Also the way the cement dust was flying, not soot from a fire.
    also why was the evidence(steel pieces) removed so quickly, why wasn’t this treated as a crime scene?
    How did they know within an hour that it was Osama?, Why wouldn’t Osama have waited an hour and killed hundreds of thousands more when there would be more people there?
    Why was a plane allowed to hit the Pentagon, don’t we have that air space sealed off? Where was Norad?Why was there noplane wreckage?
    Wake Up America.... Osama is probably being wined and dined at the Ranch in Crawford for taking the blame for a domestically plannedand executed attack.
    How about all the witness’ who heard explosions from the basement of the buildings before they started to fall, and the seismographic spikes before the towers fell.
    This was not an act of Saudi terrorists... this was an act to keep Americans in fear and make them willing to give up their rights and fight unending wars!

  • Carbon fossil fuels (such as jet fuel) cannot attain a flame temperature to WEAKEN, let alone MELT steel. Look it up folks!

    The WTC 1, 2, and 5 buildings were brought down by controlled demolitions using pre-placed explosive charges. In the case of WTC 1 and WTC 2, the initial charges were placed at the base of the buildings where the main center steel column structure (look at the design of the building, only one large set of charges is required to drop the center support initiating collapse) enters the ground. Subsequent charges needed only be placed about the center steel column structure every few floors.

    Now go watch the videos again... The building walls folded inward and collapsed straight down the center column in perfectly predictable control. Both WTC 1 and WTC 2 collapses were identical and straight down into neat piles. Many of us understood what happened immediately, but alas... many still prefer head-in-the-sand denial of the facts.

    • 9/11 Was an “Inside Job” to Justify Three Wars – Caught on Video Red Handed – World Wide 9/11 Truth Movement Grows Daily!
      The above site is the most researched site I’ve found......it actually shows the ’shear blasts’ exploding as ST comes down